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DECLISSIFIED
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E.O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D)
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Ey HC-NLT NARS Date 3-14-73
publicity regarding the UNRRA program and less recognition
of America's preponderant part therein were permitted by
the Russian authorities. The Marshall Plan has been
actively and consistently attacked and, wherever possible,
sabotaged by the Russian Government and by the Communists.
4. The Soviet Government failed to carry out its commit-
ments for the holding of free elections in the satellite
countries -- Poland, Rumania, Hungary, and Bulgaria. It
has rejected the offer made by Secretary Byrnes and renewed
by Secretary Marshall for the negotiation of a forty-year
nutual-guarantee pact against German and Japanese aggression.
The right of veto in the United Nations, which was clearly
intended only to save a great power from being forced to
comply with measures which it might consider of major
detriment to itself, has been used at least twenty-sever
times by the Soviets and only once by any other great power
acting alone. A large proportion of the Soviet vetoes have
been used in cases for which the use of the veto was not
contemplated in the negotiations at the San Francisco
Conference. The USSR has rejected an offer on the control
and use of atomic energy which would have meant the
revealing of important information developed in and known
only to this country. Despite agreement reached at Moscow
in August 1948 for settlement of the Berlin problem, the
Russians subsequently did not abide by this agreement and
thereby brought about the failure of the attempts to solve
the Berlin issue through negotiation. The USSR has not joined,
and has often viciously attacked, most of the international
organizations set up to further the purposes of the United
Nations Charter.
5. In the light of this history of non-cooperation and
rebuff on the part of the Russian Government and in the face
of the oft-repeated objectives of the Soviet leaders, the
possibility of and basis for the Western Powers reaching
agreement with the USSR would seem unpromising. Before the
outbreak of World War II, Stalin (in his Foundations of
Leninism) wrote:
"It is the essential task of the victorious
revolution in one country to develop and support
the revolution in others. So the revolution in a
victorious country ought not to consider itself as
a
self-contained unit, but as an auxiliary and a
means of hastening the victory of the proletariat
in other countries.
Similarly,
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